An aerial photograph possibly showing Fairbanks, Alaska. There is an arrow indicating a place which may be a landing sight for Howard Hughes' Lockheed L-14 Super Electra plane.
From the Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (PH-00345). Frazier Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes and crew in parade up Broadway after record-breaking world flight. New York, New York."
Oral history interview with Pearl Hughes conducted by Katherine D. Beal on February 11, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In the interview, Hughes discusses her family's early arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada after moving from Salinas, California. Her family then bought and operated a motel in North Las Vegas, Nevada between the late 1940s to 1950. Hughes also discusses the growth of the hotel and casino industry, city urban development, community interactions, Las Vegas, Nevada celebrities, atomic testing, and President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
The black and white view of mechanics working on the Lockheed 14 aircraft. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Filling up the take with gasoline on Howard Hughes' plane in preparation for a take-off for Paris. At Floyd Bennett Field. July 1938."